As a lot of you know, cooking has never been my thing. I stored my paint in my oven. When I worked I had a good lunch then would just eat a bowl of cereal in the evening. Easy breezy! The last thing I wanted to do was drive home in traffic for an hour after working 9 hours then try to cook for one. Susie Homemaker I am not. Well, not the cooking part. The decorating my home and keeping it looking great, yes.
The first time I went to the Feria about 50% of what I bought went bad before I ever used it. I have not caught the cooking bug yet. There are not many choices. There is not one single fast food drive through in all of Puriscal or the surrounding area. This I take as a good thing. Most people do their own cooking which makes for much healthier happier people and families. I have friends that make everything from scratch. I mean EVERYTHING! Bread, yogurt, jams, jellies, pizza dough and pizza sauce. I admire all these people so much, and I am hoping some day it will rub off on me, but so far no go.
I am going to have to get really strict with myself, and realize how good it will be for me to cook healthy meals. In the mean time it bores me to death to even think about it. Maybe if I make a to-do list of what to cook each day will work....probably not!
Three days ago I stopped at one of my local Sodas and bought a bowl of soup for lunch. Oh my gosh! I don't know exactly what was in it, but it creeped me out. I asked in my terrible Spanish what it was, and they told me vaca (cow). Next, with horror on my face, I grabbed my tongue and asked if it was cow tongue. They said no, thank goodness, but then pointed to their stomach area. I just stopped right there! I don't want to know. With that in mind I'm thinking I really do need to at least make my own soup. So, yesterday at the Feria I did actually buy some beautiful vegetables to make soup, salad and good servings of fruit. I honestly would prefer to just eat fruit, but I'm working on it!
How many kilos of beans would you like?
How about some fresh coconut water? It was delicious!
The Feria is wonderful. Emmaculately clean, organized and fresh! It is also a place to run into so many people you know on Saturday morning.
Pura Vida!
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